People don't scale. This is graphically implied in Maslow's Hierarchy[1], shown as a pyramid. The area of the abstractions occurring up the individual's pyrami

People don't scale. This is graphically implied in Maslow's Hierarchy[1], shown as a pyramid. The area of the abstractions occurring up the individual's pyramid is dwarfed by the area of the base needs. The more people you consider, the more the basic needs for e.g. food and shelter dominate. Finely nuanced abstractions about rights and aesthetics? Don't waste your breath on more than the substet of the population whose heads linger around the top of the pyramid. Someone else who understood this non-scalability point was Gustav Le Bon[2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popular_Mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Po...